Daming heir

There was no sound in front of the Chen residence.

Patriarch Chen, who was knocked aside because the officers and soldiers rushed into the mansion, was still standing there, but it was empty from the neck up.

Blood water, like a spring, dyed the red painted door panel even redder.

There is a coquettish look.

Patriarch Chen's blood-stained head, disheveled, rolled down the steps in front of the mansion, and rolled all the way to the feet of the big gentry in Chenliu County who were already like quails.

The rolling head stopped.

The big gentry let out a gasp, and even a few elderly people were so frightened that they went limp all over.

If it weren't for the support of the people around him, he would have been so frightened that he fell to the ground and passed out.

Everyone stared at Pei Benzhi whose back was turned to everyone.

Even the commander of the Habayashi Weiyou Battalion, who was in charge of the army, looked at Pei Benzhi's back in surprise when he saw the bloody pillar.

Standing on the steps, Pei Benzhi smiled.

Just in time.

At this moment, standing on the embankment of the Yellow River, Zhu Yunxi looked solemnly at the breach in front of him, and there were bursts of bulges between his brows.

He continued: "Your Highness, fifty miles to the northwest of this place is Lanyang County. Seventy miles to the southeast is Ningling County of Guide Prefecture, and 120 miles to the southeast is Shangqiu, the city of Guide Prefecture."

As he spoke, Pan Deshan took a shovel from Yu Tian, ​​the chief manager of Taisun's mansion, and then shoveled it heavily on the embankment.

However, if Pan Deshan dared to say that Lanyang County did not control the river in front of the accompanying officials, it must be on target.

Pei Benzhi shook his head and sighed softly: "You still don't understand why the county says it saved you."

The charcoal fire in the stove under the stone pot was burning very red, and the pickles in the cooking pot kept rolling on pieces of old tofu.

According to the prelude, this breach was blasted because of that damn bastard in Lanyang County.

The county magistrate nodded: "This subordinate obeys the order."

Lanyang County Government.

Then Cao Zhisheng tied the two ends of the bed sheet tightly together, moved a stool under it, tried it firmly, and then looked around.

Finally, there was a commotion outside the Lanyang County Government Office.

Pan Deshan said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, this soil is the ironclad proof that the embankment of the Yellow River in Lanyang County has not been strengthened for the whole year of last year. However, the imperial court has already allocated money and grain for river affairs as usual."

However, in actual operation, imperial envoys who are entrusted with the emperor's order often choose to kill people to solve the problem.

kill.

Pei Benzhi nodded, looked at the big gentry in front of him whose eyes had lost their light, and sneered.

After a shovel of loess on the embankment, Pan Deshan shoveled it up.

"Kaifeng government doesn't give money and food, and how the county builds the levee is wrong, and it is also the fault of Kaifeng government."

The magistrate of Chenliu County, who was running profusely, opened his mouth, watched his magistrate's look and expression again and again, and finally found the point of this sentence.

After the incident in Xuzhou Mansion, Zhu Yunxi arranged everything later, and continued to lead the accompanying officials and supplies of the imperial court to the Kaifeng Mansion.

When the rich gentry heard Pei Benzhi's voice, they couldn't help but tremble.

Pei Ben's gaze couldn't help sinking.

In the middle of the front hall, sat a man with disheveled hair.

Originally, I was an official in Chenliu County for eight years, and I was engaged in being kind and pleasing to the people in front of me. I suppressed them and exploited the people step by step by boiling frogs in warm water. Although it has achieved results, it has never been like it is now.

Zhu Yunxi saw the numbness of these river workers and common people.

Everyone froze on the spot.

"There is nothing wrong with this county!"

"..."

……

Can you borrow food, can you kill everyone here?
Therefore, between the possibility of not dying and having to borrow food, these big gentry who were about to be frightened, hesitated again.

Even the Kaifeng government gave up on him.

"Your Highness, this is where the embankment burst in the lower reaches of Lanyang County. The water in front of it was the Xidi Bay under the jurisdiction of Lanyang County."

As he got closer, he could finally see clearly the appearance of the disheveled man.

Pan Deshan smiled slightly, folded his hands and bowed, and stepped aside.

However, now that the Kaifeng government has sent food and money, it seems that he, the county magistrate of Lanyang County, has been forgotten.

Cao Zhisheng ran back and forth in the front hall of the yamen like crazy, and after a while, he had a kitchen knife in his hand.

Killing Patriarch Chen was for borrowing food, and talking to them now is still for borrowing food.

Finally, he raised his head to look at the gloomy emperor grandson.

As a result, my heart became more and more uneasy.

When an officer and soldier arrived in front of the Chen Mansion, he loudly reported the amount of food donated by a family, and the amount was accurate to single digits.

Then Pan Deshan squatted down and used both hands to push away the loess from the shovel.

"Today, Chenliu County is short of food. You want to borrow food from the county government. You are confused by the Chen thief and almost have something to do with Chen thief. Could it be that when the rescue came from this county, you were relieved of your difficulties?"

After thinking about it a few times, he finally decided to cooperate with Magistrate Pei.

With a bang, the entire table was overturned by Cao Zhisheng, and he had already run towards the back house of the county government office.

In a blink of an eye, Cao Zhisheng dragged a large piece of bed sheet to the front hall of the yamen.

When they got close, some officers and soldiers shouted: "The Sun family in Chenliu County donated five thousand seven hundred and twenty three shi."

Zhu Yunxi's face became more and more gloomy, and he stepped forward lightly and stretched out his feet to kick the loess of the embankment pulled away by Pan Deshan, but nothing could be seen.

Cao Zhisheng finally understood his last role now.

Zhu Yunxi shook his head and looked at the river workers of Lanyang County who were still under the embankment, constantly moving bags of soil and bricks on the breach of the embankment, his eyes looked a little dignified.

Just a break.

Sure enough, just as the general of the right army camp thought.

The bloody smell so close at hand made him want to vomit, and it was all because he was concerned about what he was going to do at this moment, so he resisted it so as not to lose his dignity.

Time suddenly slowed down.

It was Cao Zhisheng, the county magistrate of Lanyang County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province.

"The great kindness of Pei County is due to me and other ordinary people, remember the five internal affairs, and never forget the kindness of the county's respect."

Cao Zhisheng suddenly looked crazy, and stood up with his hands on the table.

He wanted to use Patriarch Chen's head to scare the chickens and monkeys, and deter these big gentry families in Chenliu County.

These river workers, even when they saw their own team under the banner of the emperor's order, did not respond at all, their eyes were calm, as if there was only the breach in front of them that had never been repaired.

According to the normal procedure, he should be arrested by people from Kaifeng Mansion at this moment, and put in the government prison, waiting for the imperial envoy to arrive, or the order to arrive, and then decide his own life and death.

With a long sigh, Cao Zhisheng raised his head and filled a bowl of pickled vegetable tofu soup with a spoon.

Zhu Yunxi said in a deep voice: "I have seen the river course and the breach with my own eyes, what do you think?"

"The Wang family of Chenliu County donated 230 four stones of grain."

Cao Zhisheng held the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and the only sound in the entire county government office was the gurgle of boiling soup in the stone pot in front of him.

Cao Zhisheng's eyes lit up.

He turned to look at the accompanying officials behind him.

Zhu Yunxi walked into the Lanyang county government office with murderous intentions.

There was also no one outside the yamen, only on the streets farther away, people could be seen cleaning up and carrying sundries from time to time.

In the empty county government office, there were no prostitutes who used to come to sing songs every day.

"Everyone, I killed Thief Chen to save you and others."

People's hearts are being worn away bit by bit.

Because the person who came from the imperial court was the grandson of Emperor Jian Guo.

Vaguely, someone was saying hello.

After all this was done, Cao Zhisheng stood on the stool, held the sheet with both hands, hung his neck lightly in the middle of the sheet, and stared fixedly at the outside.

Holding the bloody knife in his hand, Pei Benzhi turned around slowly and walked to the edge of the steps in front of the Chen residence.

Pei Benzhi almost told the whole thing today upside down, and all the big gentry couldn't help pondering.

But the current Pei Benzhi is not an imperial envoy, nor is he a soldier of the frontier army.

Among the big gentry kneeling on the ground, someone raised his head.

It is still a matter of borrowing food.

It was precisely because of this breach that the disaster in the land of the six prefectures was aggravated.

When he walked into the county government office surrounded by the magistrate, chief secretary, pawns and representatives of the river workers in Lanyang County, he saw Cao Zhisheng hanging in the lobby of the county government office, his body swaying in the wind. swinging.

There were bursts of noise from the courtyard to the east of the Chen Mansion.

Without prior consultation, all the gentry and big households knelt on the ground.

Pan Deshan glanced back at the accompanying officials, then turned his head to look at the emperor's grandson, and said in a low voice, "Lanyang County doesn't control the river at all."

However, Pei Benzhi had to do so.

After finishing speaking, Pei Benzhi turned to the county magistrate again and said: "Since all the good families have donated food, we should exchange the accounts with each family as soon as possible."

Zhu Yunxi's eyes sank, and he looked at the breaches that had been blocked by the people of Lanyang County one after another these days, and asked, "Now that you're here, what do you do first?"

Because the river workers all over the county will no longer send fish to the county government.

The people in Lanyang County were even more shocked.

I do not know how long it has been.

"The flood peak is approaching. The county will blow up the embankment to release the flood, so that there will be no more collapses downstream. The county is not wrong!"

Pei Benzhi spoke.

The salty aroma of pickles mixed with the smell of old tofu floated in the yamen.

Cao Zhisheng gritted his teeth and kept rubbing the bed sheet with the edge of the knife until the whole bed sheet became a thin layer, and only the silk threads were connected together before he felt relieved.

That is numbness.

As long as Pei Benzhi survives the disaster this time and is not impeached, he will definitely become a big shot in the court of Yingtian City in the future.

Pei Benzhi sneered, and walked down the steps with a knife in his hand.

Pointing to Pan Deshan.

Suddenly, Pei Benzhi found that he liked this way of handling things.

"Also ask Pei County to release him."

How could this ever be a donation?

Pei Benzhi laughed softly: "Everyone, get up, I will remember the county in my heart for all of you to help me today."

As each family was reported, many of the big gentry households who had hesitated before fell to the ground.

"Go to the Lanyang county government with Gu, and see what the magistrates of my Ming Dynasty look like."

"I'm dead! You want me to be a dead ghost, but I don't want to do what you want!"

Everyone shook their heads.

In front of the man, there was a wooden table, on which was a stone pot with pickled vegetables and tofu, but no fish.

The soldiers of the frontier army will also choose to kill people to protect the peace of the frontier.

After eating and drinking half a bowl in small sips, the borrowed umami was always missing, Cao Zhisheng finally put down the bowl and chopsticks, turned his head and looked anxiously outside the yamen.

Not long ago, Cao Zhisheng, the county magistrate who was still watching the rain and listening to the music, eating pickled vegetables, tofu and fish soup with wine, has lost his former style.

On the rolling Yellow River, a team walked along the river bank from south to north, and stopped in front of a huge embankment breach.Pan Deshan, the official secretary of Dushuiqing of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, pointed his finger at the mouth, compared with the Kanyu in front of him, and spoke in a dignified tone.

At this moment, Pei Benzhi's heart was constantly surging.

"Xianzun, the people in our county are no longer short of food!"

He was holding a kitchen knife in front of a piece of bed sheet, and when he was about to cut it off, Cao Zhisheng's eyes lit up and he stopped.

Until now, General Youjun finally understood what Pei Benzhi was going to do.

Inside the Chen residence, officers and soldiers rushed out.

Pan Deshan looked to the northwest, then turned to look at the emperor's grandson beside him.

Today, Cao Zhisheng finally knew why he was "confined" in the Lanyang county government office.

"I also ask the county lord Mingxiao, we are neither related nor related to that Chen thief, nor have we had any contact with him."

General Youjunying had no idea that Pei Benzhi, a Confucian county magistrate who looked weak in writing, would brazenly commit such murder and beheading in front of everyone.

Pei Benzhi had the weird smile on his face after the murder. Wherever he looked, all the gentry and big households lowered their heads in horror, not daring to look at each other, for fear that the Magistrate Pei would raise his knife and behead his head again.

Presumably, the officers and soldiers had already found the Chen family's grain storage.

As soon as possible rather than immediately.

On the street in the distance, another group of officers and soldiers came rushing towards the Chen residence.

That is to copy a copy of the account and keep it for future use.

Because of the actions of this stupid local official, the people will naturally think that the court must do the same.

The servants of Chen's family huddled behind the mansion gate looked terrified, they huddled together and did not dare to step out of the mansion gate to collect the body for their master.

In an instant, a thought appeared in the mind of the general of the right army camp.

This is to grab food with their own accounts!
Worried about bringing soldiers into the city to borrow food, but at this moment, they rushed to the gate of Chenliu County with the accounts and the accounts filled with joy. The three of them, the county magistrate, chief bookkeeper, and pawn, could not hide their joy.

When he got outside the gate of the mansion, he immediately shouted: "The Chen mansion checks for eight thousand nine hundred shi."

This is the most direct and worst impact of a stupid official on the court.

At this moment, I looked at Patriarch Chen's head and took the food from these people. They are my accomplices, and they are tied to me.

Pan Deshan thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Zhu Yunxi: "If the minister governs again, the first thing to do is to resume farming. Although it is impossible for the six governments to collect all the taxes in summer and autumn this year, if we resume farming as soon as possible, we can still save a crop of grain. The common people will have a better life this year.

then.

He is the magistrate of Chenliu County, the seventh rank of the Ming Dynasty.

Abandoned son.

"If you are asked to control the river, you will resume farming instead."

……

Pan Deshan continued: "If the embankment hadn't been blown up here, the upstream breach would have relieved most of the flood pressure in the river channel. In this way, it is only necessary to block the upstream breach. However, if the embankment is blown here, there will be no flood at all. Instead of unloading the force of the river, it will let more river water pour out, causing more river water to flow into the land of the six prefectures."

Pei Benzhi smiled slightly: "Tie Chen took advantage of the catastrophe to occupy the fields of the people in our Chenliu County, hoarding grain and grass, with the intention of driving up prices. This move is contrary to the imperial court's will, and it is a crime of disobedience, which affects the nine clans. Is the thieves' banquet already among the nine thieves of Chen?"

But Cao Zhisheng knew very well that he was abandoned by everyone.

"..."

Pei Benzhi, who came close, looked at the big gentry kneeling in front of him with compassion.

Then the kitchen knife in his hand, which was originally perpendicular to the bed sheet, became an oblique angle.

There was no one around, as if the yamen under the imperial court had gone bankrupt and closed down.

Afterwards, more and more officers and soldiers rushed to Chen's residence from all over the place.

They hope to use themselves to ease the anger of the emperor's grandson.

Do not!
He is bound to survive the disaster and impeachment this time, and he will definitely become a big shot in the court!
No matter what people around think about what just happened.

In the law of the Ming Dynasty, no one can kill without the review of the Three Jurisdictions and the imperial approval of the emperor Zhubi.

He raised his head to look at the beams under the roof of the front hall, wrapped in the sheets that were torn into pieces and tied together, and threw it upwards vigorously.The sheet flew around the beam and fell down.

With his back to the crowd, he let out a long breath of foul air from his chest.

As long as I say a word now, these people will definitely complete it meticulously.

Zhu Yunxi couldn't help smiling.

Behind Pei Ben, the general of the right army battalion stared at Pei Benzhi who walked up to the group of big gentry with slightly moving eyelids.

As for this, the county magistrate, chief bookkeeper, and pawn in Lanyang County knew everything about it, but they never interfered. They even took all the people in the county government out of the city long ago, under the pretext of dealing with the disaster. .

Where is this borrowing food?

After cursing angrily, Cao Zhisheng grabbed the bed sheet with both hands, kicked the stool down, and immediately sank down.

As for the two breaches, now that the water has receded, it is not a problem.It just needs to be re-plugged before winter. "

"The farmers in Chenliu County donated 610 shi of grain."

However, Cao Zhisheng knew very well that on both sides of the gate of the yamen, there were river workers who came to watch him every day, in order to prevent him from escaping.

"The emperor's grandson cannot kill the county!"

Is this Cao Zhisheng going to commit suicide in fear of crime?
Or, did he want to play a dying trick of being forced to die with injustice?
Just when everyone didn't know what happened.

Clang.

Cao Zhisheng, who was still swaying with the wind, was in everyone's sight all of a sudden, and hit the ground hard.

Immediately, there was a painful groan in the lobby of the county government office.

"Ouch..."